Couple of Coffees

A good night's rest is here

So the upshot of last night's horrid hotel experience is as follows:

We, very politely, explained our lack of sleep while checking out this morning, and the clerk offered us $10 off. Perhaps it would have been more if we were part of the power outage, too. It seems, though, there's a larger issue of personal responsibility.

The next part of the story was arriving in McCook, Nebraska at 9:30 this evening only to find this is the busiest weekend in the whole year in this region, due to school starting again soon, I suppose. No vacancy, no vacancy, and no vacancy. The best suggestion was driving an hour north, but nobody could guarantee if those hotels would have rooms. With the crazy thunderstorms shooting across the plains, not to mention the continuing heat, we didn't want to camp, even if there was a campsite nearby.

After I told the third hotel clerk about us driving a long ways today to get here, she fiddled around with her computer and figured out how she could squeeze us in. I am so very, very grateful. The Wal-Mart parking lot was looking like our best option tonight, and yet here we are, ensconsed in a clean, spacious room with WiFi, with complimentary hot breakfast in an actual restaurant (gasp!) next door tomorrow morning. We couldn't be luckier. We wish wonderful things for the nice lady who took the time to find us a place in the inn.

posted by Laura the Writer @ 11:02 PM